Position Responsibilities:
a. Analyze epidemiological data and work with Ministries of Health (MOH) and other international organizations (NGOs, and other Public Health organizations) to create solutions to problems that arise in polio eradication and VPD program implementation and outbreak response.
b. Participate with Polio Eradication Branch team leads in development and implementation of field project plans addressing routine immunization, data quality or surveillance, outbreak investigation, and vaccination campaigns. Use historical polio data to improve outreach activities.
c. Analyze World Health Organization (WHO), Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO), or host country partner epidemiologic data as it relates to VPD surveillance, disease transmission and outbreaks for use by Donor in documentation, data management and legacy planning.
d. Participate in activities designed to promote polio, measles and other emerging vaccine preventable disease eradication, routine immunization, data quality and surveillance of new vaccines. Attend meetings and webinars with international and local partners in order to stay abreast of the most current developments in the outbreak and status of worldwide eradication. Incorporate and share lessons learned and best practices developed during work conducted on CDC polio eradication projects with country and field staff.